Response to Course material dec 11

I was very pleased to begin discussing Ceremony as a class.  I will admit that I had a lot of unanswered questions after reading the book.  Though I still do, the group discussion by the class is helping a great deal in understanding the aspects of the book that were previously confusing me.  It is very helpful to have someone as knowledgeable about the Laguna Pueblo culture as Ms Holmes helping to guide the discussion.  In the vast majority of cases, our literary history has done very little to help us to identify and explain the complex and abstract imagery utilized by Silko.  The countless motif's exposed in the just first few pages, such as the idea of circles and reciprocity, colors of all sorts and their importance (yellow especially) and the theme of interlinked cultures I never picked up on.  I don't think that is attributed to me reading poorly a first time, but rather I honestly think I didn't really have the tools or understanding of the book after a first read to pick up on them.  However this is exactly what makes the close read so rewarding.  I have an epiphany with every few pages, and the story makes more sense and I see countless links between events the more I read.